June 5, 2020

410 years ago
1610

Theatre
The masque Tethys' Festival was performed at the Palace of Whitehall to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick as Prince of Wales.

170 years ago
1850

Born on this date
Pat Garrett. U.S. lawman. Mr. Garrett was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, who was credited with fatally shooting Billy the Kid in 1881. Mr. Garrett was killed near Las Cruces, New Mexico on February 29, 1908 at the age of 57 while was travelling with another man to a meeting to discuss a land dispute. Mr. Garrett was fatally shot when he stopped in the desert for a few minutes to urinate.

160 years ago
1860

Born on this date
Douglas Hazen. Canadian politician and judge. Sir Douglas, a native of Oromocto, New Brunswick, was a member of the Conservative Party who was Mayor of Fredericton (1888-1889) and represented the City and County of St. John in the Canadian House of Commons (1891-1896). He lost his seat in the 1896 federal election, and moved into provincial politics, becoming leader of the Conservative Party of New Brunswick. Sir Douglas represented Sunbury in the N.B. Legislative Assembly (1899-1911), serving first as Leader of the Opposition and then as Premier after leading the Conservatives to power in the 1908 provincial election. He re-entered federal politics in 1911, winning his former seat by acclamation, and serving as Minister of Marine and Fisheries and Minister of the Naval Service in the cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Borden. Sir Douglas was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet during World War I, but left politics in October 1917 to become Chief Justice of New Brunswick. He served in this capacity until his retirement in 1935, and died in Saint John, New Brunswick on December 27, 1937 at the age of 77.

130 years ago
1890

Politics and government
Premier Oliver Mowat led his governing Liberal to a sixth consecutive majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly in the Ontario provincial election. The Liberals won 53 of 91 seats, a decline of 4 from the most recent election in 1896. The Conservatives, led by William Ralph Meredith, took 34 seats, an increase of 2 from 1896.

125 years ago
1895

Born on this date
William Boyd. U.S. actor. Mr. Boyd appeared in silent movies such as The King of Kings (1927) and Two Arabian Knights (1927) before achieving fame as cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy in dozens of westerns in the 1930s and 1940s, and subsequent radio series in the 1950s. He died from complications related to Parkinson's disease and congestive heart failure on September 12, 1972 at the age of 77.

Abominations
Nicholas Flood Davin, MP (Conservative--Assiniboia West) introduced a motion in the Canadian House of Commons giving women the vote; fortunately, it was soundly defeated.

120 years ago
1900

Born on this date
Dennis Gabor. Austro-Hungarian-born U.K. electrical engineer and physicist. Dr. Gabor, born Günszberg Dénes in Budapest, concluded his education and began his career in Berlin, but fled to the United Kingdom in 1933 after the Nazis took power in Germany. He worked for the British Thomson-Houston company in Rugby, Warwickshire, where he invented holography in 1947. Dr. Gabor was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of the holographic method." He was also a futurist, and was famous for saying "the future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented." Dr. Gabor died on February 9, 1979 at the age of 78.

Died on this date
Stephen Crane, 28. U.S. writer. Mr. Crane was a poet, journalist, and author of novels and short stories who was a notable early figure in American Naturalism and Impressionism; Ernest Hemingway was among the writers influenced by his work. Mr. Crane reported on the Greco-Turkish War and the Spanish-American War, but was best known for the novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895). He was living in England when he suffered a series of pulmonary hemorrhages, and died at the spa of Badenweiler, Germany while attempting to recover.

War
British troops took Pretoria in the Boer War.

110 years ago
1910

Died on this date
O. Henry, 47. U.S. author. Mr. Henry, whose real name was William Sydney Porter, wrote several hundred short stores, many of which were known for their surprise endings. His stories included The Cop and the Anthem (1904); The Gift of the Magi (1905); and The Ransom of Red Chief (1907). Mr. Porter served three years in prison from 1898-1901 for embezzling from a bank where he worked, and drank himself to death.

100 years ago
1920

Born on this date
Cornelius Ryan. Irish-born U.S. journalist and author. Mr. Ryan was best known for his World War II history books The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day (1959); The Last Battle (1966); and A Bridge Too Far (1974). He died of prostate cancer at the age of 54 on November 23, 1974, just two months after the publication of A Bridge Too Far, and while that book was topping bestseller lists.

Marion Motley. U.S. football player. Mr. Motley, one of the first Negro stars in American professional football, played fullback with the Cleveland Browns from 1946-1953. The Browns were the champions of the All-America Football Conference during the entire four years of the league's existence from 1946-1949; after moving into the National Football League, the Browns won the league title in 1950, and were finalists in the championship game during the last three seasons of Mr. Motley's career. Mr. Motley led the AAFC in rushing in 1948 with 964 yards, and the NFL in 1950 with 810 yards. He excelled in AAFC championship games: 13 rushes for 98 yards and a touchdown in 1946; 13 for 109 yards, including a 51-yard run to set up a touchdown in 1947; 14 for 133 yards and three touchdowns in 1948; and 8 for 75, including a 63-yard touchdown run, in 1949. Mr. Motley was slowed down by knee injuries during his last three seasons; a comeback attempt with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1955 ended after 7 games as a linebacker. He was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1968, and died of prostate cancer on June 27, 1999, 22 days after his 79th birthday.

Died on this date
Rhoda Broughton, 79. U.K. authoress. Miss Broughton, a native of Wales, was known for her early novels--many of them in three volumes--whose heroines had "easy" morals. The sensational content of these novels made them commercially popular, but when she turned to writing novels in one volume with less sensational content, the later novels were ignored.

90 years ago
1930

Died on this date
Eric Lemming, 50. Swedish athlete. Mr. Lemming won four medals at the Intercalated Games in Athens in 1906: a gold medal in the javelin throw, and bronze medals in shot put, pentathlon, and tug of war. He won gold medals in freestyle javelin and javelin throw at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, and a gold medal in the javelin throw at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912. Mr. Lemming died from leftover effects of the influenza that had struck him in 1918.

80 years ago
1940

War
After a brief lull in the Battle of France, German forces renewed the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme at 4 A.M. in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red"), encountering stiff French resistance. Japanese troops in France crossed the Han River to assault the Yangtze River port city of Ichang.

Politics and government
An Order-in-Council from the Cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King declared 16 Nazi, Fascist and Communist organizations--including the Communist Party--illegal under wartime emergency legislation, and authorized the imprisonment of their leaders.

French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud reshuffled his cabinet, dropping former Prime Minister Edouard Daladier and adding Paul Baudoin and General Charles de Gaulle.

Charles Edison resigned as U.S. Secretary of the Navy in order to run for the governorship of New Jersey.

Diplomacy
Reports stated that the only regular work being performed by the League of Nations' skeleton staff were the studies and reports of the Economic Section.

Labour
The New York State Chamber of Commerce called on the United States Congress to defeat the La Follette Oppressive Labor Practices Bill, charging that it would be detrimental to the national defense program.

United Mine Workers of America President John L. Lewis expressed little hope of a truce between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

The International Ladies Garment Workers Union adopted a resolution to reaffiliate itself with the AFL.

75 years ago
1945

War
Supreme Allied Headquarters announced that American ground casualties on the European continent from the June 1944 invasion of Normandy to V-E Day in May 1945 totalled 514,534. About 500 U.S. planes dropped 3,000 tons of fire bombs on Kobe, Japan. U.S. troops gained 2 miles on the east coast of Okinawa and cut off the Chinen Peninsula. Chinese reports claimed that Japanese troops had quit Hoiping, Szetsin, Sunwui, and Toishan in a 55-mile area west of Hong Kong.

Diplomacy
The United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco formally admitted Denmark to membership as the technical committees completed their work.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill charged that French provocations had caused the hostilities between French forces and rebels in Syria and Lebanon; he hoped that U.S.-U.K.-French conferences could settle the issue.

Politics and government
The Allied Control Council formally took power as the military occupation governing body of Germany.

Democratic Party leaders in New York City chose District Attorney Bill O'Dwyer as their mayoral candidate.

Labour
U.S. President Harry Truman asked the House of Representatives Rules Committee to vote out the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Bill.

70 years ago
1950

On television tonight
Lights Out, on NBC
Tonight's episode: The Heart of Jonathan O'Rourke, starring Peter Capell, James O'Neill, Alfreda Wallace, and William Windom

Diplomacy
The U.S.A. recognized Haiti's junta.

Politics and government
Brazilian Senator and former President Getulio Vargas accepted the Brazilian Labour Party nomination as its candidate in the October 3 presidential election.

Law
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that segregation practices in Southern railroad dining cars and in two Southern universities were unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had "paramount rights" to the oil-rich tidelands off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.

Economics and finance
U.S. President Harry Truman signed a bill authorizing $3.12 billion in foreign economic aid.

The Western Allies returned the West German chemical industry to German control, with the provision that no war products were to be manufactured.

60 years ago
1960

On television tonight
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, on CBS
Tonight's episode: Cell 227, starring Brian Keith and James Best

Auto racing
USAC
Championship Car Series
Rodger Ward won the 100-mile Rex Mays Classic at the Milwaukee Mile. A.J. Foyt finished second and Len Sutton third in the 22-car field.

50 years ago
1970

Hit parade
#1 single in New Zealand (RIANZ): Knock Knock, Who's There?--Mary Hopkin

#1 single in Ireland (IRMA): Yellow River--Christie

South Africa's Top 10 (Springbok Radio)
1 Spider Spider--Tidal Wave
2 Daughter of Darkness--Tom Jones
3 Carol Ok--Chris Andrews
4 Knock Knock Who's There--Mary Hopkin
5 Ma Belle Amie--Tee Set
6 Tchaikovsky One--Omega Limited
7 Love is a Beautiful Song--Dave Mills
8 When Julie Comes Around--The Cuff Links
9 Bridge Over Troubled Water--Simon & Garfunkel
10 All Kinds of Everything--Dana

Singles entering the chart were I Don't Believe in If Anymore by Roger Whittaker (#15); Gimme Dat Ding by the Pipkins (#18); and Little Green Bag by George Baker Selection (#20).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKLG)
1 Everything is Beautiful--Ray Stevens
2 My Baby Loves Lovin'--White Plains
3 Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)--Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
4 Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle--Creedence Clearwater Revival
5 The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue--The Beatles
6 Soolaimón (African Trilogy II)--Neil Diamond
7 Cecilia--Simon & Garfunkel
8 The Letter--Joe Cocker with Leon Russell and the Shelter People
9 The Wonder of You--Elvis Presley
10 Tennessee Bird Walk--Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan

Singles entering the chart were A Song of Joy by Miguel Rios (#26); Hey, Mister Sun by Bobby Sherman (#28); Mississippi Queen by Mountain (#29); and I'm Gonna Capture You by Terry Jacks (#30).

Vancouver's Top 10 (CKVN)
1 Up Around the Bend/Run Through the Jungle--Creedence Clearwater Revival (3rd week at #1)
2 Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)--Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
3 My Baby Loves Lovin'--White Plains
4 The Long and Winding Road/For You Blue--The Beatles
5 Everything is Beautiful--Ray Stevens
6 A Song of Joy (Himno a la Alegria)--Miguel Rios
7 The Letter--Joe Cocker with Leon Russell and the Shelter People
8 Cecilia--Simon & Garfunkel
9 Mr. Monday--The Original Caste
10 Maybe I'm Amazed (LP track)--Paul McCartney

Singles entering the chart were Come Saturday Morning by the Sandpipers (#27); Crazy Jane by Tom Northcott (#28); Gimme Shelter by Merry Clayton (#29); and Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (#30).

Edmonton's Top 10 (CJCA)
1 The Long and Winding Road--The Beatles
2 Soolaimón (African Trilogy II)--Neil Diamond
3 Up Around the Bend--Creedence Clearwater Revival
4 Let it Be--The Beatles
5 Everything is Beautiful--Ray Stevens
6 Mississippi--John Phillips
7 Gimme Dat Ding--The Pipkins
8 Daughter of Darkness--Tom Jones
9 Bitter Green--Ronnie Hawkins
10 My Baby Loves Lovin'--White Plains

War
A report of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee stated that American military authorities in Saigon and Washington believed before the American intervention in Cambodia that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were on the defensive and were moving westward in Cambodia away from the South Vietnamese border. In justifying the intervention, U.S. President Richard Nixon said that the Communist forces were gathered in sanctuaries for attacks on South Vietnam.

Diplomacy
In an article published in a foreign affairs weekly, the Soviet government accused Communist China of meddling in the internal affairs of almost every Asian state, and warned those following the Chinese line that Communist China’s policies generally backfired.

Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera concluded his three-day visit to the United States. During his visit, Mr. Caldera had addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress and stated that the future of Latin America hinged on the extent to which the U.S.A. would be willing to "become a pioneer in social international justice." He criticized U.S. aid policy, saying, "It is difficult to realize that the people who reached the moon are not able to make a decisive contribution toward the development of other countries." Mr. Caldera, in talks with U.S. President Richard Nixon and other officials, called for a more liberal policy toward American imports of Venezuela’s oil.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and most recently chief U.S. delegate to the Paris peace talks, was named by U.S. President Richard Nixon as his personal envoy to the Vatican.

Economics and finance
The United States Labor Department reported that unemployment in May was 5%--the highest rate since 1965.

Canadian federal and provincial finance ministers started a two-day meeting in Winnipeg; they agreed to limit inflation and to give more money to poorer provinces.

Baseball
Bert Blyleven, called up from the Evansville Triplets of the AAA American Association to replace the injured Luis Tiant, made his major league debut with the Minnesota Twins against the Washington Senators before 12,818 fans at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington. The first batter he faced, Lee Maye, hit a home run, but Mr. Blyleven gave up just 4 hits after that. The Twins won 2-1, and Mr. Blyleven, who pitched 7 innings, was credited with the win.

Jim Hickman batted 4 for 5 with 2 doubles, 4 runs, and a run batted in to help the Chicago Cubs defeat the San Francisco Giants 12-8 before 21,961 fans at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The Giants scored 5 runs in the 9th.



Coco Laboy led off the 9th inning with a home run to break a 2-2 tie as the Montreal Expos came back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 before 11,742 fans at Atlanta Stadium.

Jim Wynn led off the bottom of the 11th inning with a single, advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Doug Rader, and scored from there on a single by Denis Menke to give the Houston Astros an 8-7 win over the Philadelphia Phillies before 12,292 fans at the Astrodome. Del Bates started the game at catcher for the Phillies and batted 0 for 2. He made 3 putouts, and was removed from the game in a double switch immediately after throwing out Joe Pepitone for the first out of the 6th inning in an attempted steal of second base. The assist turned out to be the last play of Mr. Bates' 22-game major league career.

40 years ago
1980

Hit parade
#1 single in Ireland (Hot Press): What's Another Year--Johnny Logan (3rd week at #1)

Diplomacy
Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, addressing an Iranian-sponsored conference in Tehran on U.S. "intervention in Iran," said that the issue of hostages in the U.S. embassy could be "clarified" if the U.S. acknowledged what it had done to the "oppressed people of Iran within the last 25 years."

Three days after the mayors of two West Bank communities had been maimed by bombs, the United Nations Security Council voted 14-0 to condemn Israel for failing to protect Arab lives in the West Bank.

Oil
The United States House of Representatives voted 335-34 to override President Jimmy Carter’s veto of a resolution that rejected his proposed fee on oil imports. The proposal would have imposed a levy of $4.62 on each barrel of imported oil; the levy would have been transferred to the consumer by way of a 10-cent-per-gallon duty at the gasoline pump to discourage energy consumption. Congressional opponents of the measure had argued that it would conserve little energy and hurt those consumers not able to pay, while other congressmen felt that the tax would hurt their re-election chances later in the year.

Economics and finance
Justice Albert Malouf tabled in the Quebec National Assembly his report on the costs of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal. He exonerated Quebec's then-Premier Robert Bourassa from responsibility for the outrageous costs, but pointed the finger at Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau and Olympic Stadium architect Robert Taillibert, and accused the Montreal administration of "gross negligence." the cost of the 1976 Summer Olympic Games increased from a projected $310 million in 1972 to more than $1.3 billion in 1976.

Hockey
NHL
The National Hockey League awards for the 1979-80 season were presented. The winners included Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers, who was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's Most Valuable Player and the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the most gentlemanly player. The 19-year-old centre became the youngest player to win two individual NHL awards in one season.

30 years ago
1990

Hit parade
#1 single in Finland (Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland): Vogue--Madonna (3rd week at #1)

Basketball
NBA
Finals
Portland 99 @ Detroit 105 (Detroit led best-of-seven series 1-0)

The Pistons trailed 90-80 with 7 minutes left in regulation time, but guard Isiah Thomas led a Detroit comeback as they beat the Trail Blazers before 21,454 fans at the Palace at Auburn Hills, Michigan. Mr. Thomas led all scorers with 33 points--most of them in the final 7 minutes--and added 6 assists. Clyde Drexler led Portland scorers with 21 points.



25 years ago
1995

Hit parade
#1 single in Italy: Missing--Everything but the Girl (5th week at #1)

#1 single in Spain (PROMUSICAE): Scream/Childhood--Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Norway (VG-lista): '74–'75--The Connells (2nd week at #1)

#1 single in Germany (Media Control): Be My Lover--La Bouche (2nd week at #1)

Canada's Top 10 (RPM)
1 Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?--Bryan Adams (2nd week at #1)
2 No More "I Love You's"--Annie Lennox
3 Can't Stop Lovin' You--Van Halen
4 Lightning Crashes--Live
5 Let Her Cry--Hootie & the Blowfish
6 Believe--Elton John
7 Secret Garden--Bruce Springsteen
8 It's Good to Be King--Tom Petty
9 I Know--Dionne Farris
10 Connection--Elastica

Singles entering the chart were This Ain't a Love Song by Bon Jovi (#40); Scream by Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson (#49); I'll Be There for You by the Rembrandts (#73); Untitled by The Age of Electric (#94); Curious by Sandbox (#97); and Everyone Will Crawl by Charlie Sexton (#98). I'll Be There for You was the theme from the television series Friends.

Science
The Bose–Einstein condensate--state of matter of a dilute gas of bosons cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero--was first produced by Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman at the University of Colorado at Boulder NIST–JILA lab, in a gas of rubidium atoms cooled to 170 nanokelvin (nK). This state had first been predicted, generally, by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in the mid-1920s.

20 years ago
2000

Died on this date
Don Liddle, 75. U.S. baseball pitcher. Mr. Liddle played with the Milwaukee Braves (1953); New York Giants (1954-1956); and St. Louis Cardinals (1956), compiling a record of 28-18 with an earned run average of 3.75 in 117 games, and played a major role in the Giants' 4-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series. In the first game, the score was tied 2-2 and the Indians had runners on first and second bases with none out in the top of the 8th inning when Mr. Liddle relieved Sal Maglie. Vic Wertz then hit a tremendus drive to center field, which Willie Mays caught in one of the most famous catches in baseball history. Marv Grissom immediately relieved Mr. Liddle, who remarked, "Well, I got my man." The Giants won the game 5-2 in 10 innings. Mr. Liddle started the fourth game and allowed 5 hits and 4 runs--1 earned--in 6.2 innings and was credited with a win as the Giants won 7-4 to end the Series. Mr. Liddle was 80-50 in 251 games in 8 seasons in the minor leagues from 1946-1957.

War
The Six-Day War in Kisangani began in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city was destroyed.

World events
Rebels in the Solomon Islands put up roadblocks in the capital city of Honiara and held Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa'alu hostage in his home.

Diplomacy
U.S. President Bill Clinton addressed the Russian parliament, and then visited Ukraine, addressing a throng in Kiev. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma announced that the Chernobyl plant, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, would be closed by December 15.

Law
The Chilean Court of Appeals announced in Santiago that it had voted 13-9 to strip former President Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte from prosecution for crimes committed during his regime from 1973-1990.

Hockey
NHL
Stanley Cup
Finals
New Jersey 3 @ Dallas 1 (New Jersey led best-of-seven series 3-1)

John Madden's shorthanded goal at 4:51 broke a 1-1 tie as the Devils scored 3 goals in the 3rd period to defeat the Stars at Reunion Arena.



Baseball
The San Diego Padres took first baseman Adrian Gonzalez as the first pick in the annual major league free agent draft.

10 years ago
2010

Horse racing
Drosselmeyer, with Mike Smith up, won the 142nd running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park, New York in a time of 2:31.57, 1 3⁄4 lengths ahead of Fly Down, with First Dude third in the 12-horse field.